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Congress recently renewed the GSP program through December 31, 2020, yet benefits for specific countries and products may be at risk as part of Administrative reviews.

Most notably, the Trump administration has announced self-initiated reviews that could result in loss of GSP benefits for all imports from India, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan. There is also a petition to suspend GSP benefits for Thailand. Starting in fall 2018, the Trump administration will assess whether to self-initiate reviews for countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and the Western Hemisphere.

Importers must continually make the case that GSP benefits matter to American companies and workers. There are multiple ways companies and associations with a stake in GSP can support continued duty-free benefits: